Pastey™ is a "companion app" that makes it easy for a professional translator to obtain term research, draft translations, etc., from ChatGPT, without needing to leave the translation environment that he or she is working in. Pastey runs in the "background" while you work in a CAT tool, MS Word, etc.

Setup

1. Under Session > Settings, set the languages and context of your current project.
2. Enter your ProZ.com login credentials. (This will unlock remote access to the ChatGPT large language model.)
3. Position Pastey to one side of your computer desktop, so that it will be visible but will not interfere with access to your translation work environment (CAT tool, MS Word, etc.)
4. The "Pause/Listen" toggle button puts Pastey into active listening mode.

Workflow

1. From within your translation environment, select and copy (CTRL+C) a block of source text (e.g. a term, sentence or paragraph.) When active, Pastey will automatically send anything you copy to the language model for translation.
2. Notice that Pastey provides indication of its progress in obtaining a translation, both in the application and in the taskbar at the bottom of your computer's desktop.
3. Once a proposed translation has been obtained, you may use your computer's Paste function (CTRL+V) to deposit it in the appropriate place in your translation environment (or elsewhere).
4. Review and edit the proposed translation, to ensure quality. (ChatGPT is great for ideas and suggestions, but there will surely be errors.)
5. Repeat the steps, selecting blocks of text as appropriate to work efficiently without compromising quality.

On-the-fly adjustments

• You may wish to adjust the context in Session > Settings in order to improve the quality of translations received.
• In the future, Pastey will support glossaries so that you can tune the AI's responses.

Pausing and Finishing

• As long as Pastey is in active listening mode, the application will take anything you copy to your computer's clipboard and replace it with translations obtained from the external language model. Therefore it is necessary to pause the application whenever the clipboard is needed for other purposes.
• Once you are done translating, simply close Pastey.

Further improvements

• If you have requests or ideas for improving Pastey, please share them via the ProZ support system or in the site's AI forum.